“Eleven Coils ago, these buildings, this Floor was outside the Tower. It was the cradle of humanity, and it was not unlike the 6th Floor, a series of islands connected to each other via a vast ocean.” Loth said as she paced back and forth while Will delicately cut the pod away from the floor.No chance I’m not gonna take this home and study it, Will thought. He was currently experimenting with the giant’s crystal bones, and if this machine could freely manipulate them…there was a lot on the table to learn.“So the Tower, when it heated up would boil the ocean around it, creating dense clouds that rose up to the stars and clogged them up with salt and minerals, causing the ocean to rapidly lose heat, and the weather to be violent.By the time Ezykial the serpent came around at the end of the coil, the world was nearly frozen, and he climbed the Tower with his trusty snake, Steve, in search of a solution.”Loth glanced up and waggled her eyebrows at Will.Will looked up, beyond the ceiling, picturing the monstrously large snake above them, that composed a massive chunk of the Floor itself.“…No way.”“Probably not. It could just be an homage that the natives don’t even remember the reason for. Or just a dumb-luck coincidence.”“I’m less and convinced that dumb-luck coincidences are a real thing,” Will mused, following a wire back to it’s origin and delicately removing it along with the box it connected to.The more of this Will could get back home, the more easily he could set it back up…Who am I kidding, I don’t have the technology to set it up…Ghoul might though.Will finally got the last piece of the pod out of the ground and exercised his rights as a Lord.Purchase Freight Door to 10th Floor, Burned Stronghold?Yes.15772 -> 15662 Influence Remaining. (...)